The Fourth Annual Screen Industries in East-Central Europe Conference (SIECE, 28-29 November, 2014, Olomouc) shifts attention from the materiality of cultural production to the media industries’ generation and dissemination of both symbolic capital and cultural power. Potential topics for papers and panels include but are not limited to:
- Artistic movements, canons, traditions, and brand-name auteurs
- Schools, institutes, associations, and other media organizations
- Festival events and awards
- Cultural intermediaries: commentators, impresarios, arbiters of taste
- Socio-historical forms of cultural value and taste
- Discourses of art, quality, and public service, and cultural elitism
- The cultivation of fame and esteem
- The impact of disputes and scandals
- Promotion and publicity